US4331382A - Wide-angle mirror for automobiles and the like - Google Patents
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- B60R1/00—Optical viewing arrangements; Real-time viewing arrangements for drivers or passengers using optical image capturing systems, e.g. cameras or video systems specially adapted for use in or on vehicles
- B60R1/02—Rear-view mirror arrangements
- B60R1/08—Rear-view mirror arrangements involving special optical features, e.g. avoiding blind spots, e.g. convex mirrors; Side-by-side associations of rear-view and other mirrors
- B60R1/081—Rear-view mirror arrangements involving special optical features, e.g. avoiding blind spots, e.g. convex mirrors; Side-by-side associations of rear-view and other mirrors avoiding blind spots, e.g. by using a side-by-side association of mirrors
- B60R1/082—Rear-view mirror arrangements involving special optical features, e.g. avoiding blind spots, e.g. convex mirrors; Side-by-side associations of rear-view and other mirrors avoiding blind spots, e.g. by using a side-by-side association of mirrors using a single wide field mirror or an association of rigidly connected mirrors
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- This invention relates generally to mirrors for vehicles, more particularly to rear vision mirrors providing a wide-angle view from either outer side of the vehicle and through the blind spot that is not imaged by conventional rear view mirrors, the mirror itself consisting essentially of a single generally planar reflective surface and a single contoured reflective surface while avoiding the use of any generally spherically shaped reflective surfaces.
- Rear vision mirrors that include generally convex reflective areas for providing a reflective view intended to be more extensive than that which can be provided by a flat reflective area are shown for example in U.S. Letters Pat. No. 3,764,201, which discloses a rear vision mirror expressly designed and adapted for large trucks and buses.
- This patent includes the use of spherical reflective surfaces. The presence of spherical surfaces necessitates, by statute, that a rear view mirror spherical reflective surface have a radius of at least 20 inches in order to preclude image distortion and vehicle operator confusion brought about by a spherical reflective surface having a radius less than 20 inches.
- Mirrors in compliance with this statutory requirement are exceedingly large and unsuitable for use in smaller vehicles such as passenger automobiles, vans and pick-up trucks having limited side window height and practical limits of how far an outside-mounted mirror can reasonably project beyond the width of these smaller vehicles.
- U.S. Pat. No. 3,764,201 specifies convex generally cylindrical reflecting zones or areas that curve rearwardly and that have a radius of 5 inches.
- a generally convex cylindrical reflecting surface having a radius as small as on the order of 5 inches is not satisfactory because such a small radius creates an unsafe amount of image distortion that all too often leads to driver confusion, especially for non-professional drivers who typically operate passenger automobiles and the like.
- a radius as small as about 5 inches or less causes a deceiving and very abrupt change in the image seen in the reflective surface, particularly at the junction of the curved reflective surface and an adjacent flat reflective surface.
- the disadvantages attendent to using spherically contoured reflective surfaces are avoided, as is the need to use exceptionally large reflective surfaces or the practice of utilizing reflective surfaces having curvature radii smaller than that now found to enhance the safe use of combined curved and planar reflective surfaces, particularly by non-professional drivers.
- the present invention avoids distortions brought about by spherical surfaces and by curved reflective surfaces having small radii, while at the same time avoiding the need to provide rear vision mirrors having a size that is prohibitive for smaller vehicles such as passenger automobiles and the like.
- the present invention provides a wide-angle rear vision mirror that has a single contoured surface which is not spherically contoured and which is integral with and outwardly extending from a single substantially planar reflective surface, wherein the single contoured surface is a convex cylindrically contoured surface having a radius of curvature of approximately 8 inches, plus or minus about 121/2 percent.
- Another object of this invention is an improved rear vision mirror especially structured for mounting outside of either the left side window or the right side window of a vehicle.
- Another object of the present invention is an improved rear view or rear vision mirror having a structure that avoids significant image distortion brought about by spherical reflective surfaces and/or contoured surfaces having radii outside of a critical range of radii values.
- Another object of the present invention is an improved rear vision mirror for use on relatively small vehicles such as passenger automobiles in order to provide an image at the blind spot area without substantially distorting such image.
- Another object of the present invention is an improved rear vision mirror having a single generally planar reflective surface and a single generally cylindrically contoured reflective surface, which surfaces have area measurements related to each other in a predetermined manner.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a passenger automobile having a mirror embodying the present invention mounted on both the left-handed side and the right hand-side thereof;
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the mirror of this invention, shown oriented for mounting on the right-hand side of a vehicle and illustrating the critical dimensional relationships of this invention;
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the mirrored surface of FIG. 2, shown as adapted for mounting over the planar mirrored surface of a conventional vehicle rear view mirror so as to convert same into a wide-angle rear view mirror;
- FIG. 4 is a schematic drawing illustrating the reflected line of sight of a traditional rear view mirror.
- FIG. 5 is a schematic drawing illustrating the wide-angle reflecting line of sight achieved by the present invention.
- FIG. 1 The preferred rear vision mirror in accordance with this invention is illustrated in FIG. 1, being generally designated as 11, shown mounted in known manner on the door 12 of a vehicle 13.
- Rear vision mirror 11 is depicted in this view as including a composite reflective surface 14 mounted within a streamlined frame 15.
- a driver 16 When seated within vehicle 13, a driver 16 has a field of vision extending through an angle "A" running from an inner liner of sight "B” reflected from a generally planar reflective surface 17 and through an outer line of sight "C” reflected from a contoured reflective surface 18 whereby the field of vision "A” includes a field of sight generally overlapping into the peripheral vision of the driver 16.
- FIG. 2 illustrating composite reflective surface 14' in which generally planar reflective surface 17' is shown oriented to the left of contoured reflective surface 18' as should be the case when mounted to the right side of the vehicle 13, while in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 the generally planar reflective surface 17 is illustrated as being oriented to the left of contoured reflective surface 18.
- Composite reflective surface 14 or 14' has a width "w" and also a height "h” which is substantially less than the width "w".
- the width of the generally planar reflective surface 17 is about 60 percent of the width of composite reflective surface 14, i.e. "3/5 w," while the width of the contoured reflective surface 18 is approximately 40 percent of the composite reflective surface width, i.e. "2/5 w".
- the height "h" of the composite reflective surface 14 is approximately the same as the width of the generally planar reflective surface 17, i.e. on the order of about "3/5 w", although height "h” could be as great as "2/3 w", if needed to fit within a conventional frame such as the streamlined automobile frame 15.
- contoured reflective surface 18 such is a generally convex cylindrically contoured surface having a contour angle "D" of a radius "r".
- radius "r” In order to minimize distortion of images while maximizing image size within the confines of an automobile-sized composite reflective surface 14, radius "r" must be about 8 inches in length, plus or minus about 121/2 percent of "r".
- FIG. 3 is a cross-section through the wide-angle rear vision mirror of FIG. 2 further illustrating the composite reflective surface 14' mounted within a backing frame 21 crimped around the composite reflective surface 14', with an adhesive spacer 22 secured to the backing frame 21 directly behind at least a portion of the generally planar reflective surface 17'.
- the adhesive spacer 22 and backing frame 21 are provided to enable composite reflective surface 14 to be readily mounted over the flat reflective surface of a conventional rear view mirror when it is not desired to replace the conventional mirror with the entire mirror assembly 11 shown in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 4 illustrates the line of sight field of vision "E” afforded by a conventional flat surfaced outside rear view mirror 23 mounted upon a moving vehicle 24, such angle being about 10° in size to provide a field of view that excludes a "blind spot” in which another vehicle 25 can be positioned, unknown to the driver of vehicle 24.
- FIG. 5 illustrates a rear vision mirror 11 in accordance with this invention, such having a reflected line of sight including substantially the same field of vision "E” provided by mirror 23, onto which is added a wide-angle field of vision "F” that is provided by contoured reflective surface 18 (FIGS. 1 and 3), such field of vision "F” including within its angular extent the second vehicle 25, thereby eliminating the "blind spot".
- the composite reflective surface would have a width "w" of about 51/2 inches and a height "h” of about 31/2 inches, whereby the width of the generally planar reflective surface 17 is about 3.3 inches, and the width of the contoured reflective surface 18 is about 2.2 inches.
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